Details will be available nearer the date.

Members of Ouse Washes Molly Dancers and Misfit Molly will be joining Mepal Molly to celebrate the end of Plough Monday with songs and dances in two of Ely’s best pubs, The Fountain and The Prince Albert.

Help us “keep up the day” at:
7pm – The Fountain
8pm – The Prince Albert

Enjoy dances, stories and music from Ouse Washes Molly Dancers and our guests, Sutton Masque, outside the Jolly Sailor and warm up afterwards with more music in the bar.

Enjoy dances, stories and music from Ouse Washes Molly Dancers and our guests, Pig Dyke Molly, Fenstanton Morris and Peterborough Morris Men outside the Jolly Sailor and warm up afterwards with more music in the bar.

Ouse Washes and friends

Cheer the Straw Bear’s release onto the streets of Ramsey, watch molly dancing by Ouse Washes and the pupils of Ramsey Junior School and warm up to the sound of a music session inside the Jolly Sailor.

“Hole in your stocking, hole in your shoe,
Please will you give me a penny or two?
If you ent got a penny a ha’penny will do,
If you ent got a ha’penny, then God Bless You!”

The Ramsey Straw Bear, accompanied by Ouse Washes Molly dancers and a horde of children from local schools, will parade from the Junior School in Station Road, via Whytefield Road, Great Whyte and Little Whyte, to Abbey Green, Hollow Lane, for a massed display of Molly Dancing following the blessing of the plough.

Gordon Phillips, founder of Ouse Washes Molly Dancers says;
“We resurrected Plough Monday events in the town in 2009, as a result of a number of stimuli.  Nicky Stockman and I were working in a project called Cambridgeshire Roots and during that we found out the the Ramsey area had one of the oldest Plough Monday traditions, probably older than many other places and it also had a tradition that certainly went on longer than anywhere else.  As part of the project we met several people who went out on the day in their youth in the 1950s/60s, two of whom came into Ramsey School and taught the children the Ramsey song, that has been sung in the town for at least 150 years.”